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View synonyms for lap up

lap up

verb

  1. to eat or drink
  2. to relish or delight in

    he laps up old horror films

  3. to believe or accept eagerly and uncritically

    he laps up tall stories

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Idioms and Phrases

Take in or receive very eagerly, as in She loves to travel—she just laps it up , or The agency is lapping up whatever information their spies send in . This expression alludes to an animal drinking greedily. [Late 1800s]
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Example Sentences

Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods.

And now lap up thy sewing, child, for I see thy father coming in, and we will go down to hall.

Although the flies are sucking insects, their beaks lap up liquid food and are not at all like the beaks of the bugs.

It is curious that the female should have such habits, while the males are content to lap up nectar from the flowers.

Such a man, truly wise, creams of nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

I wish you could have seen Fluff lap up the milk, which was warmed for him and put in a saucer on the floor of the automobile.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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